Worth
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Know what you’re holding.

Point your iPhone at it. A thrift find, a card, a pair of shoes, a watch, a car, a house. Worth names it and puts a price range on it in a couple of seconds, then checks what it is listed for right now, new and used, across retailers and marketplaces.

Thrift stores, garage sales, estate sales

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Worth on an iPhone. Above, the photo: a 1955 Topps baseball card. Below, the answer: 1955 Topps Sandy Koufax #123 Rookie, trading card, estimated value $6,000 to $11,000, high confidence at 80%, with the reasoning that it appears sharp with clean borders and is priced as a raw card.

Estimated value, from the one photo above

$6,000 to $11,000

1955 Topps Sandy Koufax #123 Rookie

High confidence80%

The app’s reasoning, word for word: “The 1955 Topps Koufax rookie is a key card; this appears sharp with clean borders, priced as a raw card around EX-NM.”

Six photos. Six estimates.

Every line below is a real answer from the app, set down exactly as it appeared. One photo each, nothing added.

  1. A painted brick cottage with a steep gabled roof

    Painted Brick Tudor Revival Cottage

    House

    Low confidence40%

    $450K to $750K

  2. A red sedan parked on a street

    Tesla Model 3 Long Range

    Car

    Medium confidence55%

    $17,000 to $25,000

  3. A silver double-cab pickup in a parking lot

    2009 Toyota Tacoma Double Cab TRD Sport

    Truck

    Medium confidence60%

    $12,000 to $18,000

  4. A 1955 baseball card of a pitcher in a blue cap

    1955 Topps Sandy Koufax #123 Rookie

    Trading Card

    High confidence80%

    $6,000 to $11,000

  5. A two-tone steel and gold watch bracelet on a wrist

    Rolex Two-Tone Oyster Bracelet

    Watch

    Low confidence30%

    $1,800 to $3,500

  6. A games console with red and blue controllers beside its dock

    Nintendo Switch Neon Console HAC-001

    Console

    Medium confidence60%

    $120 to $175

Added upThe six ranges above, summed. Worth prices one thing at a time; this arithmetic is ours.

$487K to $808K

When a photo does not show enough, the confidence says so. The watch is only a bracelet in frame, so it gets 30% and a note that a full watch would sell for far more.

The aisle, the driveway, the estate.

Worth is for collectors, and for people who flip. Thrift stores, Goodwill, garage sales, yard sales, estate sales and flea markets. Some will list the find. Some only want the number, or to see the same thing cheaper somewhere else.

Flip it on eBay, Poshmark, Mercari or Facebook Marketplace, or walk away.What to check before you flip.The live check is asking prices, new and used, at places like Walmart, Target and StockX as well as the resale apps. Not only eBay and Amazon, and not a sold-price history.

It asks what a collector would ask.

A first estimate is an opening figure. Worth then names the one thing that would move it most: the reference on a watch, the stamp on a card, the miles on a car, the crack on a thrift find. Tap a quick answer or take the follow-up photo, and the price is worked out again the moment it is taken.

Everyday things, not only collectibles: clothes, shoes, kitchen gear, toys, sneakers, consoles and vintage tech, coins, art and guitars.

First the number. Then the second look.

The price lands first.

Take the photo. The name and the range are on screen in a couple of seconds, while the rest is still being written. Then the confidence, the reasoning and what it noticed fill in underneath.

Mid-scan: an ember line sweeps across the photo of a games console. The sheet below already shows its name, Nintendo Switch Neon Console HAC-001, with grey bars where the rest will appear.
While it is still reading the photo, the answer starts to arrive.
The finished answer: $110 to $170, medium confidence at 55%, a sentence on why used units sell in this range, three notes on what the photo shows, and a line saying 76 eBay listings ask $130 to $160 right now.
Then the price, how sure it is, and why.

One fact, and the range moves.

Each answer names what would narrow it. Here the owner typed five words about condition. The range tightened, and the confidence went from medium to high. This is a different photo than the Switch in the list above, which came in at $120 to $175 from one shot.

The card under the result asks for a photo of the console's back serial label. In the text field below it, someone has typed: Light crease on one corner.
From the photo
$110 to $170Medium confidence, 55%
After “Light crease on one corner”
$105 to $160High confidence, 80%
The re-priced result: $105 to $160, high confidence at 80%, with the note that a light corner crease is cosmetic, so it sells at the lower used range, and a line saying 79 eBay listings ask $130 to $160 right now.
The new answer says why it moved.
  • A row under the result asking: Was this right? With a thumbs up and a thumbs down.

    Tell it when it’s wrong.

    Thumbs up, thumbs down, or what the thing is actually worth. A correction outweighs any single estimate, and it improves the next price for that item.

  • The Where to buy list on a console's result: eBay, Amazon, and Video game stores near you. Each row opens outside the app.

    See where it trades.

    The live check looks up what the same item is listed for right now, new and used, across retailers and marketplaces. Walmart, Target, StockX, eBay, Poshmark, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace: whichever pages the search actually finds. Not only eBay and Amazon. The screenshot here is a real console result, and the line on it happens to be eBay. Those figures are asking prices, not what things sold for. Worth then links out to places that sell it. It never asks for your location.

  • The History screen with tabs for All and Bookmarked. One bookmarked row: Nintendo Switch Neon HAC-001, $105 to $160.

    Keep the record.

    Every scan goes into your history on the phone. Bookmark the pieces you are watching and find them again in one tap.

Where the number comes from.

Worth is an appraiser’s first look, not a formal appraisal. This is what goes into a range, and what is kept out of it.

The photo
A model looks at the photo and writes a name, a category and a range. That is the estimate you would get if nobody had ever scanned the item before.
What has been seen before
Before the range reaches your phone it is checked against earlier looks at the same item. With enough evidence the range moves toward it, and the answer says so.
Corrections
When an owner says what something is really worth, that counts for more than any estimate. It is the only ground truth Worth collects.
One voice per phone
Twenty scans from one phone count once. Nobody moves a price by repeating themselves.
Asking prices
Live listings, new and used, show what stores and sellers are asking right now. The check is not limited to eBay and Amazon. They can pull the top of a range down. They never push a price up. They are not sold prices.
When it isn’t sure
With too little evidence, or evidence that disagrees, the memory stays out of it. You get the fresh estimate and an honest confidence.

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